Learn about the current studies being done by researchers and affiliates of the Transnational IMAX project. Panelists Janine Marchessault (York), Allison Whitney (Texas Tech), Jessica Mulvogue (York), Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia), Chip Limeburner (Concordia) and Jordan Strom (Surrey Art Gallery / SFU) will discuss the architecture, design, and technology of key early IMAX sites. Topics range from the first IMAX screenings […]

Join us for a curator panel with artists and filmmakers from the Outer Worlds project (IMAX screening) and beyond. Artists will discuss their experiences of working with IMAX as a medium -- the wonders, the challenges and the possible futures of this immersive experience. Panelists include Oliver Husain, Leila Sujir, Mani Mazinani, and Munro Ferguson. Moderated by Janine Marchessault. […]

Outer Worlds is an extra-ordinary film program that features five, experimental IMAX films by Canada’s leading artists: Oliver Husain, Lisa Jackson, Kelly Richardson, Michael Snow, and Leila Sujir. The theme of the commissioned program is in keeping with the cinematic genre typical of IMAX films—the larger-than-life landscape that forms an outer world beyond the limits […]

Drawing remains an essential element within the practice of many artists, designers, makers, architects, engineers, and many other professions involving forms of visualisation; for some it is their central focus. As a fundamental means of communication and expression, documentation and ideation, the act of drawing is a bodily, performative and instinctive means to see what […]

A working dialogue on the models, forms and focus of the Thinking Allowed publication/s, which are designed to document and reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the research work of the project. Convened by Gary Sangster, Director, Drawing Projects UK and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Dundee, with participants Roshini Kempadoo, Rita Wong, Sabina Gamez Ibarra […]

This artist, researcher and curatorial panel will explore questions around positionality within histories, places and archives to open up spaces for new voices to emerge, as well as dialogues within communities on identity, memory and embodiment. John Latour will present his collaborative artist’s book project, Rétrofictions / Re Fictions / Fictions that explores how the […]

Featuring Gisèle Trudel (UQAM, MÉDIANE Chair along with Stéphane Claude, research team collaborator) in conversation with respondent Damon Matthews (Geography, Planning and the Environment, Concordia and LEADS PI). Amphitheatre B104 of the Centre for Biodiversity. Panelists: Bios MÉDIANE (2020-2025), led by artist and professor Gisèle Trudel (Ph.D.) and her teams, artistically explores data from the Smartforests research program […]

12:45pm -1:15 pm Walk in the gardens with ethnobotanist Alain Cuerrier 1:30pm - 2:30pm via Zoom Eva Snyder and Teresa Sm’hayetsk Ryan, in conversation with moderator Alain Currier.Link to the Mothertree project: https://mothertreeproject.org/ Panelist: Bios Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan, PhD., (Ts’msyen) is Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Science Lecturer at UBC Forestry. For her dissertation she examined colonial dispossession of Aboriginal lands […]

Fairy Creek has had far reaching effects since the militarized Community-Industry Response Group beat us, destroyed our camps and forced us from the forest.  Our goal was to protect the old-growth and Indigenous sovereignty, but we now understand that the social structure does not work for us. This includes the capitalist system, government, law enforcement, the […]